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weather-fog/smog: late march bangkok/chang mae

exuse the spelling my wife and I are thinking of traveling to either argentina or thialand late march for a total of 9-10 days due to spring break for a daughter who is a school teacher. Argentina seems more realistic. Looking at about march 22-31 incuding flights from nyc. Issue re thialand is reports in frommers regarding heavy fog in northern thialand in march. Does anyone have experience with this? Now EVA Air has pretter good times from nyc- 24 hrs or less. A thought. Buenas Aires, etc is 11 hour flight. Interested in puts regarding rain. fog etcin thialand thank you

When they are burning off fields in Northern Thailand and Laos it can be very smokey. You won't have problems farther south in Thailand, so Bangkok and the southern beach areas will be fine. It appears you only have 9 days including fights, which would be 7 days on the ground in Thailand. If it were me - and it isn't - I'd go to Bangkok for a week. If you had 10 days, I'd suggest you split it between Bangkok and a beach area.

If you're coming in March The beach is good option to go then
You can travel both coast of Thailand , Andaman and Gulf side.
The northern good to visit from November - February (still nice weather).

West coast: Phuket but probably touristy still if you don't like crowded beach stay away from Patong,Kata,Karon ... and go to Surin,Nai Thorn,Nai Yang instead for quiet beach.
- Krabi is lovely province , stay at Ao Nang or Railay and ferry to Phi Phi is fine. Also Koh Lanta is good location to hire boat for snorkeling nearby island in Trang Province
- otherwise Khao lak at Phang Nga Province, if you love to do best snorkeling or can dive, book in advance for day trip to Surin island or Similan Islands there are the best place to visit the most.

East Coast : Koh Samui , Koh Tao, Koh Phangan , Moo Koh Ang Thong
You can stay at Koh Samui for Big Island , stay at Chaweng there is good location and easy for everything ,
- you can check at this Hotel http://www.citinurbanasamui.com/ this hotel is in Bohput beach is really nice place , They also in promotion till March 2013.
- And for cheap flight http://www.airasia.com , If you decided to visit Thailand and the beach here ,Book it now for super lowest fare from 29 October 2012 - 4 November 2012 only.